National Republican., 1887-06-06


overthrown, and are lust as much enlightened
as were disciples Of my t9xt. Don't worry,
don't fret, as though iniquity were going TO
triumph over Righteousness.
A lion goes into cavern 10 sleep. He lies
down, with his shaggy name covering the
paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin web across
captured him" Gossamer thread after gos.
samer thread is spun until the whole front OF
the cavern is covered with the spiders web,
Is fast,S Xiter a While the lion has otthroush
sleeping he rousos himself he shakes his
name, he walks out into the sunlight; he docs
with his voice he shakes the mountain.
SO men come spinning their sophistries and
skepticism about Jesus Christ. He seems to be
Lord; lie will never come forth again upon the
nation; Christ Is captured forever His ro-
ligion will never make any conquest among
men, But after awhile the Lion of the tribe
of Judah viii rouse Himself aud come forth to
shake nightly tho nations. What's SPIDERS
web to the aroused lion2 Give truth and error
isir grapple. and truth VIII come come % on victor;
get enlightened In other respects; they are af-
frightened in our day about revivals. They
afraid the church Of God is going lob, 20 be upset,
and there are going to be q great many people
brought into the church that are going to be OF
no use 70 IT, and they are alTightSen,eSd SI,S When
churches.
AS though ship captain, with 5000 bushels
Tnea o5 sSy day
cargo" and the sailors should say why,
captain, what do you mean? Throw over all
sS Sss aG pIp
| els Of wheat, and the only way to get rid of
the chaf is to throw all the wheat overheard" !"
Now, that is great deal wiser than the talk
| OF a great many Christians, who want to throw
| overheard all the thousands and tens of thou.
sands OF souls who are the subjects of revivals.
Throw all overheard because they are brought
| vivals, because there is peck OF chat, quart
| of chat, pint OF chaifl 1 say, let them stay
until the last day the Lord will divide the
| Do not be afraid of great revival.
oh, that these gales from heaven might
| sweep through all our churches Oh, for such
| days as Richard Baxter saw In England and
Robert McCheyne. saw in Dundeel Oh, for
| such days as Jonothan Edwards saw in North.
amptonl 1 have often heard my father tell of
a revival broke ont at Someryille, N. j., and
some people were very much agitated about 1t.
They said: "oh, you are going to bring too
they sent down to New Brunswick to get John
Livingston TO stop the revival.
| Well. there was no better soul In all the
world than John Livingston. He. went and
lookedat the revival !; they wanted him to stop
IT, He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath and
| looked over the solemn auditory, and he said
beware how you try:to stop It," And he was an
old man, leaning heavily on his staf-a very
old man, And he lined that staff, and took
let i fall very slowly y hroush @ bet Between S the i
finger and the thumb, and he said "Oh, thou
impepilent, thou art falling now-falling away
from life, falling away from peace and Heaven
through my hand-falling certainly though
perhaps falling slowly" And the cane kept
on on, falling through John tivingsion,s hand
| overpowering and men saw q type of their
doom, as the cane kept falling and falling, un
I'll the knob Of the cane struck Mr. Livingston
hand, and he clasped 1t stoutly and said I: but
| thegrace Of God can stop you, as stopped that
cane;" and then there was gladness all through
n9Hse at he t Of pardon and and
service, Il guess you had better send Living
ston home; he is making the revival worse
Oh, for the gales from Heaven, and Christ on
board the snip! The danger OF the church oi
Again my subject impresses me with the fact
that Jesus was God and man In the same
being. Here He Is In the back part of the
boat. oh, how tired He. looks; what sad
dreams He must have. Look at His counte-
nance; He must be thinking of the cross to
bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep
He Is man. But then i find Christ at the
PROV of the boat; hear Him say, Peace, be
| still" and see the storm kneeling at His feet
and the tempests folding their wings in His
| presence; He is God.
If have sorrow and trouble and want
sy%Path and xnse down a. the back
OF Gennesaret, sympathize with all my sorrows,
man of Nazareth, man OF the cross" A man,
o man. But II l want to conquer my spiritual
foes, i'll want to get the victory over sin
death, and hell, come to the front of the
boat, and kneel down and I say, 20, Lord
Jesus Christ, Thou who dos,t hush the tempest
hush all my grief, hush all my temptation,
hush all my sim" A man: man; d God, a
81 learn once more from this subject that
IL did seem as II eyerythipp must 90 tn ruin
The disciples had given up the idea OF mauag
Ing the ship; the crew were entirely demor
allied; yet Christ rises, and He puts His foo
on the storm, and It crouches at His feet. oh
yes, Christ can hush the tempest
You have had trouble. Perhaps 1t was the
oSs wbo ssEeS he
most curious questions and stood around you
with the greatest fondness-and the spade cut
down through your bleeding heart: Perhaps
since been like desolated castle, the owls Of
the night hooting among the falling arches
and the crumbling stairwnys:
Perhaps 1T was an aged mother, You always
went TO her with your troubles. She was In
your homo to welcome your children into life
and when they died she was there to pity YOU
That old hand will do you no more Kindness
that white lock Of hair you put away in the
casket or in the locket didn't look as 1t usually
did when she brushed 1t away from her wrin
kled brow In the Rome circle or In the country
have so much bank stock, have so many gov,
ernment securities, / have SO many houses,
have SO many farms''-all gone, all gone.
| Why, sir all the storms that ever trampled
their thunders. oil the shipwreeks have moi
been worse than this to you. Yet you have
not been completely overthrowp. Why2 Chris
hushed the tempest. Your little one was
taken away. Christ says: II have that little
one in my keeping. can care for him as wei
as you can, better than you can, o bereayed
mother |" flushing the tempest. When youl
property went away God said "There are
treasures in heaven, in banks that never
break" Jesus hushing the tempest.
| There is one storm into which we will oil
have to run. The moment when we let so o.
this life and try to take hold of the next We
will want all the grace possible. Yonder SET
Christian soul rocking on the surges of death
AL the powers OF darkness seem let ou
against that soul; the swirling wave, the thun
der of the sky, the shrek Of the wind, al
seem to unite together, but that soul is no
troubled; there is no signing, there are nc
tears. Plenty of tears In the room at the de.
parture, but he weeps no tears; calm. satisfied
peacelul-ail is we'll. by the flash of thu
storm you see the harbor Just ahead, and you
are making for that harbor. All shall be we'll
Jesus hushing the tempest.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide;
| We're home at last home at last.
Softly We drift on its bright, silv'ry tide;
| We're home at last.
| Glory to God All our dangers are DER,
| We stand secure on the glorihed shore.
Glory to God We will shout evermore,
| We're home at last"
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